The Irish standard., 1887-08-27
A SPEECH BY FATHER HAYES.
At the Grand Irish Demonstration
in 0gden's Grove, Chicago,
on the 18th Inst.
AN ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION
The Chicago times" Comes in for a
Share Of Father Hayes
Keen Sarcasm.

Father Hayes received g. very enthu-
siastic welcome as he came forward to
speak. He spoke substantially as fol-
lows:
Mr. Chairman and friends Of Ireland
and liberty: It is with feelings of no
ordinary degree of timidity that I rise
to address this mighty multitude, it l
did not believe that the weakness and
coldness of my words would be upborne
by the tide of feeling which it brings
through Irish hearts. would not in
deed attempt to tell them how poor and
cold is this speech Of mine to portray
what is gra1dest and greatest in human
life, what is most beautiful on earth,
and 80 sublime that not the earth but
the heavens is it's home. The more
some papers like the Chicago Times
deal with that which Mr.. Gladstone
rightly calls THE Great Irish Cues
tion,'' the less they seem to understand
it. AS it is often good plan to begin
at tine beginning, I think we shall learn
something Of this grand secret if We go
back through TIE ages to the days w{len
the world was young. There was no
grabbing then for the almighty
dollar, no excitement among the bulls
and bears Of the great human race, no
congressional rings" OF railroad mon
opolias, or Chicago boodlers, OF other
signs Of cur advanced civilization.
Neither was there All IngarSol] or q
Darwin scientific enough to prove that
wo are the lineal descendants OF long
called balloons. However, the Chicago
Times may like it, the ancient irish at
any rate never relished the idea Of hay
ing an ape in the family. Whether
Pagan Or Christian, they Ggznlv believed
that the destinies Of the earth end the
Inhabitants thereof are in the hands OF
Supreme Ruler Of the heavens. It
may he consistent in the Chicago Times
to believe thet the growth and decay Of
nations is a work of chance; that E'rovi-
dence has nothing at all to do with
earthly affairs, that Might shall over
come Right forever. Such & belief is
antagonistic to Celtic nature and re.
pugnant alike t., Christian teaching
and 70 the conclusions Of sound
philosophy. If the deep study Of the
philosophy OF history demonstrates any
thing clearly it is this: No nations have
yet perpetrated fragrant crimes without
finding in those crimes the seeds of
their own chastisement, humiliation
and destruction. AS the same God who
punished the iniquities of Pagan Rome
has beheld the crimes OF Pagan Eng
land, they may expect that at no dis
tant day terrible retrlbution shall over
take England in her guilty career, The
justice OF the Lord remained forever,
and just SO truly as justice shall be sat-
isfed so truly shall the pride OF the
British be hurled in the dust and
trampled in the mire. prolonged cheer
ing.)
It is proposed to build q great Irish
National Church at Rome in honor of
St. Patrick. While wishing to speak Of
the wishes of his Holiness, Leo XIII,
happily reigning with all the respect of
religious veneratlon which his position
and his moral and intellectual virtues
inspire in the bosom Of every priest
worthy of the name, yet I take the
liberty to observe that in my judgment
the time is just as inopportune now for
building great church in honor of our
canonized apostle in the Eternal City as
would be the writing of Emmet's cpl
taph upon his tomb in the city of Dub
lin. The temple that St. Patrick wishes
us to build up in his honor to-day, che
temple that would constitute hisnoblest
upon earth and reflect the
greatest glory upon the scattered mil
lions Of his spiritual children as we'll as
upon the land he loved and saved is the
temple Of Irish liberty. That is the
only temple our poor people can afford
to build up now, and concentration
upon that sublime work is the crying
need and holy duty of the hour. St.
Patrick knew better than any living
Catholic ecclesiastic what a curse sla.
very was; his own ordeal Of servitude
made him in after years the unyielding
foe to every oppression, and a potent
advocate of liberty for all the down
trodden children of Adam. It is we'll
known that hls glorious spirit laid broad
and deep the foundation of that ancient.
Irish Church which was for centuries,
and even stillin some degree remains,
the wonder and the JOY of the Christian
world. But it's not so " ell known that
he was an enthusiastic advocate of
1uman liberty and passio ionate defender
s the oppressed and the poor. IF he |.
iYed in this country he would not dis
approve Of the arnell ribute, 8 he